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جَادَّةٌ جاد جاده جادة The main part of a road; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) its middle: (Mgh, Msb, and M voce جَرَجَة:) or its even part: or the beaten track, or part along which one walks, or travels; the conspicuous part thereof: or a main road that comprises other roads, or tracks, and upon which one must pass: (TA:) or a road, or way, absolutely; as also ↓ جُدَّةٌ : (Zj, MF:) or a road leading to water: (AHn, TA:) it is so called because it is marked with tracks, forming lines: (T, TA:) pl. جَوَادٌّ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) occurring in poetry without teshdeed, but disapproved by As. (L.) فُلَانٌ عَلَى الجَادَّةِ means (assumed tropical:) Such a one is following the right course of action or the like. (Mgh.) You say also, هُوَ عَلَى جَادَّةِ الحَقِّ (assumed tropical:) [He is on the road, or main road, of truth]: not, however, عَلَى جَادَّةِ البَاطِلِ, but على مَزَلَّةِ البَاطِلِ, and مَزْلَقَتِهِ, and مَهْلَكَتِهِ. (MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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